"Itâ€™s as if Caldwell has pushed the reset button on Twitter and gone back in time to rewrite history, this time attempting to ensure that people feel safe and developers who take up residence arenâ€™t thrown out on the street."

SV elite will, so they can claim moral high ground, consider it a hedge of a bet against the (likely) inevitable future that twitter and Facebook will dominate. Seen #kony12? Hipsters love contributing to campaigns in super easy ways to buy a stake in something bigger than themselves; or perhaps I'm describing AngelList and kickstarter. :)

Well they control the platform and are the ones reporting their own numbers and funds raised...https://join.app.net/

At any rate, twitter / apple is a much more interesting conversation to me. Apple + Twitter wallet? Or would they feel obliged to partner with Square, then too? Is twitter not a public -- if not open -- Facebook.

I believe Twiiter is the app.net folks are looking for; this is, to me, more of a question of figuring out how to treat developers and what not in the business context.